What Did You Learn To Drive In?
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smokeywolf
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'56 Buick Courtesy, '58 Buick Roadmaster 78, then a '66 Renault R10. Was a fairly competent driver by the time I was 14. This doesn't count motorcycles. Started on minibikes at age 5. Didn't sell my last motorcycle until all my time was allocated to work and raising a family.
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68 Chevy Impala. I started driving at around twelve or thirteen. When I got into Drivers Ed in High School, we piled into a much newer Impala, but it was still much like home. I did my first drive, and the instructor looked at me and asked "so how long have you been driving?". I answered truthfully and he told me not to be upset it others got more drive time than I did, they really needed it, and I was good enough to pass already. We usually ended the drive with the teacher letting me drive last, prefaced with "okay, take us home".
Good teacher
Good teacher
Petrol & Powder
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The first thing with an engine, A Ford 8N tractor.
Followed by motorcycles and various trucks/cars.
Like 358156hp, by the time I got around a driving instructor, he told me I didn't need instruction. He would often tell us where to go and then fall a sleep en-route. We would reach the destination, wake him up and he woud tell us to switch drivers.
Followed by motorcycles and various trucks/cars.
Like 358156hp, by the time I got around a driving instructor, he told me I didn't need instruction. He would often tell us where to go and then fall a sleep en-route. We would reach the destination, wake him up and he woud tell us to switch drivers.
RicinYakima
High Steppes of Eastern Washington
Started driving the farm truck at about 12, a Diamond T like this one except it had a wood bed and stock racks.
First car I got to drive was a 1951 Plymouth like this one, except ours was more rust the sheet metal:
The truck was five speed on the column and the car three on the tree.
First car I got to drive was a 1951 Plymouth like this one, except ours was more rust the sheet metal:
The truck was five speed on the column and the car three on the tree.
JonB
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71' Olds Delta 88 (Grandpa's car)
and my Dad's '71 F250 4x4 snow plow truck manual trans w/granny gear.
Those are what I learned on...
,but my Dad had an affinity for the buy/sell/trading of autos, so I drove a bunch of different cars while I was in my Teens: Saab, Fiat, Mail Jeep, VW bug, to name a few of the more exotic ones. The first car in my name was a 73 Gremlin, then a Firebird, then a Pinto, Then a Saab (there was actually 3 Saabs...they are like potato chips, you just can't have one, LOL.)
and my Dad's '71 F250 4x4 snow plow truck manual trans w/granny gear.
Those are what I learned on...
,but my Dad had an affinity for the buy/sell/trading of autos, so I drove a bunch of different cars while I was in my Teens: Saab, Fiat, Mail Jeep, VW bug, to name a few of the more exotic ones. The first car in my name was a 73 Gremlin, then a Firebird, then a Pinto, Then a Saab (there was actually 3 Saabs...they are like potato chips, you just can't have one, LOL.)
smokeywolf
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Doing some checking and trying to jog my memory, I think the '56 Buick was a Special. Have a feeling "Courtesy" might have been a dealer badge on the back of the trunk.
My first car was a '63 Corvair Monza.
Petrol & Powder
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You are incredibly privileged!
I learned on cars & trucks with “3 on the tree” column shifters and a non-synchronized 1st gear. 4 speed manuals with a “granny gear” and 2 speed rear axle. And American land yachts with power steering that would change lanes by mere telepathy.
The European cars of the 60’s and 70’s were actually real cars, just smaller by American standards. The first Saab I drove was a late 1970’s 900 and it took me 3 minutes to find the lock cylinder for the ignition switch (in the center console). It was a fantastic car once I got it started!
Uncle Grinch
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1955 Chevy 4-door, 6 cylinder, 3 on the column.
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California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
Red '58 Bugeye Sprite.
First car was a $100 '56 Plymouth stick with straight-six.
One day I went to a local car lot, looked at a white '59 MGA, asked the salesman if I could take it for a test drive, he said yes, I hopped in the car and drove it long enough to find there was stuff wrong with it, returned the car and thank the guy. I was 17.
First car was a $100 '56 Plymouth stick with straight-six.
One day I went to a local car lot, looked at a white '59 MGA, asked the salesman if I could take it for a test drive, he said yes, I hopped in the car and drove it long enough to find there was stuff wrong with it, returned the car and thank the guy. I was 17.
oscarflytyer
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tractor. '62 IHC scout when I was 12. Then a 71 LTD station wagon was first car
I don’t recall the year model it was, but Dad got a Morris Minor pickup truck in a trade in the late 1960s. He taught all 5 of us kids(4 boys, 1 girl) to drive in that solid little truck with a horrible clutch. What a patient man he was!
I wrecked it for good at age 13; May it rest in peace.
I wrecked it for good at age 13; May it rest in peace.
RicinYakima
High Steppes of Eastern Washington
In the old days, parents wanted you to learn in a small light vehicle. Less likely to hurt someone else.
Mitty38
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Learned to drive on a 1932 Silver King tractor.
Learned to drive in a 1980 4door, midnight blue, Ford Granada. With a white vinyl top, and spoke hub caps.
Learned to ride on a 1976 Montgomery Words Briggs powered Mini Bike.
Brother and I still have the Tractor. We are slowly trying to get it back to how it was when we were kids.
Learned to drive in a 1980 4door, midnight blue, Ford Granada. With a white vinyl top, and spoke hub caps.
Learned to ride on a 1976 Montgomery Words Briggs powered Mini Bike.
Brother and I still have the Tractor. We are slowly trying to get it back to how it was when we were kids.
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